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Staff AI Engineer - Agentic Shopping

Picnic · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
70 days
Picnic's roles stay open a median of 103 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Picnic's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Picnic
high
312 stale, 4 reposted of 312 open
Hiring momentum
74 roles opened in the last 90 days
↓ down vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-11-14

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Picnic's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Picnic.

About this role

As a Staff AI Engineer for Agentic Shopping at Picnic, you will lead the technical direction and architecture for a grocery shopping assistant that enhances customer experience through intelligent, multi-turn conversational AI. Your responsibilities include solving complex production challenges, mentoring engineers, and establishing evaluation and safety mechanisms while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless user experience.

Our read on this posting3.4out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
4/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Picnic as an employer.

What you need

  • Proven track record of taking complex multi-turn conversational AI systems from architectural design to high-scale production
  • Experience training, fine-tuning, and optimizing open-weight LLMs for production deployment
  • Hands-on expertise building production RAG systems, context management, and state handling for multi-turn dialogues
  • Experience designing robust evaluation loops, continuous monitoring systems, and automated safety/guardrail mechanisms for customer-facing applications
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction, perform design reviews, and mentor engineering teams without relying on hierarchy
  • Strong Python skills and demonstrated ability to choose and productionize appropriate model, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation and inference tooling

Nice to have

  • Experience taking retrieval, ranking or recommendation models from problem definition to measurable production impact
  • In-depth expertise in deep learning for sequence modelling, representation learning, or retrieval and ranking
  • A degree in Computer Science, AI (or a related field), a PhD, open-source contributions, or peer-reviewed research

What you get

  • Team activities including board game evenings, after-work drinks, and company ski trips
  • Opportunity to drive your own projects in a startup environment
  • Fresh lunches, coffee, and snacks provided in the office
  • Health insurance discount and bike plan
  • Relocation support including flight costs, first month's rent, and moving costs up to €2000
  • 25 holidays, travel expense coverage, pension plan, and company-provided phone and laptop

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Focus on technical leadership and mentoring may require significant experience and confidence
  • Role involves high responsibility in a startup environment which can be fast-paced and demanding

Summarised from Picnic's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Picnic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-11-14. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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